Nick Yelloly puts the #93 Acura on pole position

Acura qualified on pole for this year's Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with Nick Yelloly setting the fastest qualifying time in his #93 Acura ARX-06 for Acura Meyer Shank Racing with a 1:11.756.

Nick Yelloly puts the #93 Acura ARX-06 on pole position

This year is a special anniversary for Acura, with the brand celebrating 40 years since its inception in 1986. Acura seeks to win its first race at the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach since the brand made its return to top-level prototype racing in 2018.

The #93 duo of Yelloly and Renger van der Zande hope that they can score that victory for Acura and for team partner Phillips 66's brand 76—which will feature on their Acura ARX-06 for this race and in two weeks' time at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca.

📷 © IMSA at Long Beach. #93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing Acura ARX-06.

Nick Yelloly: (#93 Acura Meyer Shank Racing with Curb Agajanian Acura ARX-06) qualified first "It's a special anniversary for Acura, celebrating 40 years, we have a special livery for the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach and now we have a special pole position for tomorrow's race. This feels like it's been a long time coming. My last pole position was in Road America, so I'm very happy to have been able to do this again—especially for Acura's home race and for all the great people working here. This is fantastic, and I'm incredibly happy with this result. Let's see what we can do tomorrow!" Source: Acura

BMW M Hybrid V8 second

Marco Wittmann, in the #25 BMW M Team WRT Hybrid V8, did set a 1:11.656, only 0.030s slower than the pole-winning time.

📷 © IMSA at Long Beach. #25 BMW M Team WRT Hybrid V8

Cadillac third and fourth

Louis Delétraz and the #40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R, qualified third for the 51st Long Beach Grand Prix IMSA race. His lap of 1:11.833 was bettered by pole winner Nick Yelloly of Michael Shank Racing who posted a pole-winning time of 1:11.626.

📷 © IMSA at Long Beach. #40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R

Louis Delétraz, #40 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R: “Great qualifying and P3 is a good position to start at Long Beach as we know it is very hard to overtake so big thank you to everyone at Cadillac racing and Wayne Taylor Racing. We still have the hardest part tomorrow with the race, but the car feels good. It was our best qualifying of the year and looking forward to the race and try to get our first podium of the year.”

Jack Atiken, driver of the #31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R run by Action Express Racing was fourth with a lap of 1:11.844, while Filipe Albuquerque, #10 Cadillac Wayne Taylor Racing V-Series.R was ninth with a lap of 1:12.101.

📷 © IMSA at Long Beach. #31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R run by Action Express Racing

Jack Aitken, #31 Whelen Cadillac V-Series.R run by Action Express Racing: “Yeah it was not bad I think we were hoping for a little bit more. The track conditions felt good and felt fast. But it was difficult to find that last little bit. I think we put a good lap initially but a lot of other cars toward the end after we done our run as it were. It was what it was at that point. It’s a bit of a shame, but still a good starting position for tomorrow and we have to Cadillac up there, so hopefully we can pull out a good result from that.” Source: Cadillac Racing

Porsche fifth

Julien Andlauer put the #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 969 fifth on the grid with a 1:11.945.

📷 © IMSA at Long Beach. #7 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 969

Schedule

The Grand Prix of Long Beach is set for 1:05 p.m. PT on Saturday, April 18 from the Long Beach street circuit in southern California. It will air live on NBC starting at 4 p.m. ET with streaming coverage on Peacock. IMSA Radio will stream live audio coverage on XM 206, Channel 996 on the SiriusXM app and IMSA.com.

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